PHEV in winter
Discussion
I have an Ioniq PHEV.
My 25 mile round trip to one of my work places is fine all year round in EV mode. It has a 37 mile claimed EV range.
In summer I'll get home with up to 14 miles remaining, in winter as low as 8, but can always do it without using a single drop of petrol. I do enough longer trips to run the engine.
It has heated seats and steering wheel, but if you want warm air then you'll need to run the engine.
When it's sub zero and I need to shift ice of the screen, then I use hybrid mode for the first 5 miles, then switch to electric, only on the mornings the whole car is covered in ice.
I reckon you can get 30 miles out of it when it's really cold before it runs out of electric, my commute is not too busy traffic but lots of 30mph, junctions, stop start, some hills, max speed of 45.
High speed will make that less.
The full 37 miles in milder weather is no problem if mostly sub 50mph.
3 years, nothing has broken.
it's quite slow in EV only mode.
It has air conditioned seats,
My 25 mile round trip to one of my work places is fine all year round in EV mode. It has a 37 mile claimed EV range.
In summer I'll get home with up to 14 miles remaining, in winter as low as 8, but can always do it without using a single drop of petrol. I do enough longer trips to run the engine.
It has heated seats and steering wheel, but if you want warm air then you'll need to run the engine.
When it's sub zero and I need to shift ice of the screen, then I use hybrid mode for the first 5 miles, then switch to electric, only on the mornings the whole car is covered in ice.
I reckon you can get 30 miles out of it when it's really cold before it runs out of electric, my commute is not too busy traffic but lots of 30mph, junctions, stop start, some hills, max speed of 45.
High speed will make that less.
The full 37 miles in milder weather is no problem if mostly sub 50mph.
3 years, nothing has broken.
it's quite slow in EV only mode.
It has air conditioned seats,
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